The Dystopia of Watching Hurricane Milton on TikTok

@stephantradez thought he was going to be fine. In his first TikTok about Hurricane Milton, he vowed to stay at his Tampa apartment. In a follow-up video, he said the media was “rage-baiting” everyone into thinking the storm “was going to be some catastrophic thing” but that it wouldn’t be that bad “as long as you can swim.” Late Wednesday night, he posted another video saying that he thought he’d survived but then lost his power. “This is so much worse than I expected,” he said while pointing the camera out the window of his home, showing the destruction from several floors up. Thursday morning, he posted a video saying he’d survived, adding “They have to ban hurricanes at night, that was the most stressful thing I’ve ever been a part of.”

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The 30 Best Movies on Hulu This Week (October 2024)

In 2017, Hulu made television history by becoming the first streaming network to win the Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series, thanks to the phenomenon that was The Handmaid’s Tale.

While Netflix has largely cornered the streaming market on original movies—and even managed to persuade A-listers like Guillermo del Toro, Alfonso Cuarón, and Martin Scorsese to come aboard—Hulu is starting to find its footing in features too. Below are some of our top picks for the best movies (original and otherwise) streaming on Hulu right now.

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The Fight That Nearly Destroyed the Letterboxd Community

Things like this don’t happen on Letterboxd. It’s supposed to be a place where movie nerds share their love of cinema, a throwback to the internet’s pre-Facebook halcyon days. But lately, it’s been reeling from a disagreement between the site’s users and staff that got so big, major directors started weighing in. To make matters worse, it wasn’t some argument about Marvel movies or Martin Scorsese. It was about anime.

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‘Metaphor: ReFantazio’ Is the Future of RPGs

Katsura Hashino is what you’d call a nervous guy.

“It is every day for me,” he says. “I’m completely filled with anxiety.”

A longtime designer of the role-playing video game series Persona, he has good reason to be. After moving away from the series in 2016, he eventually took the helm of a new game, Metaphor: ReFantazio, which aims to not just be the culmination of developer Atlus’ most-beloved RPG series, but also an introduction to a brand-new fantasy world that he hopes players will respond to as well as they have with his past games. No pressure.

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The 40 Best Shows on Hulu Right Now (October 2024)

While Netflix seemingly led the way for other streaming networks to create compelling original programming, Hulu actually beat them all to the punch. In 2011, a year before Netflix’s Lilyhammer and two years before the arrival of House of Cards, the burgeoning streamer premiered The Morning After, a pop-culture-focused news show that ran for 800 episodes over three years, plus A Day in the Life, a docuseries from the late Oscar-winner Morgan Spurlock.

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Six-Word Sci-Fi: Stories Written by You

Disclaimer: All #WiredSixWord submissions become the property of WIRED. Submissions will not be acknowledged or returned. Submissions and any other materials, including your name or social media handle, may be published, illustrated, edited, or otherwise used in any medium. Submissions must be original and not violate the rights of any other person or entity.

—@heardaniyell, via Instagram

Honorable Mentions:

Dog focus group favorite flavor: human. —Jordan Tannenbaum, via email

Reprogramming their tongues enslaved them all. —Osman Salleh, via email

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